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- One of Baltimore City's oldest social service agencies is behind on multiple mortgages and has had the power cut off in its offices and in a men's shelter it operates – and it says the city is to blame.
- Tom Carbo was named the Howard County's housing director in February after former housing director Stacy Spann left to take a job in Montgomery County. He's now faced with the difficult task of making housing affordable for a range of income levels in one of the country's wealthiest counties.
- Annapolis housing officials are investigating whether an alderman found by police in a city-owned complex during a drug raid last week is living there in violation of a lease agreement.
- A developer has been brought in to build two residential buildings with at least 230 apartments, negotiations are under way to lease out a new pharmacy, and both projects could be part of a reinvigorated Wilde Lake Village Center that could see ground being broken by early 2013
- A modest increase in average home prices in November is the first upturn for the Baltimore region in more than a year, but beleaguered homeowners shouldn't cheer just yet.
- A project to rebuild an affordable housing development and a large recreation center in Ellicott City will begin in early December, with the demolition of the Hilltop Housing complex.
- People with mental illnesses in Baltimore County face a severe shortage of affordable housing.
- For Eddie Germino, being unemployed for a time last year worked to his advantage in a dispute with his Maryland landlord.
- Congress should preserve program that has made millions of housing units available to people who need them
- A broad swath of workers in the Baltimore region — including those landing jobs in the sector doing the most hiring these days — don't earn enough to afford a home or even to rent a two-bedroom apartment on their salaries alone.
- Private contractor calls $500,000 per house rehab costs "insane"
- Now everyone knows Oprah's name. But when the 22-year-old native of Kosciusko, Miss., arrived in Baltimore, her viewers were actually asked "What is an Oprah?" And they were stumped. When she recalls her Baltimore history, she talks about being "humiliated," "embarrassed" and "sexually harassed."